Transitive MENW Luke/Homer

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Oct 14 00:10:42 EDT 2002


At 3:10 PM -0700 10/13/02, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
>Looking for transitive use of MENW, discovered a verbal curiosity
>
>ACTS 20:5 hOUTOI DE PROELQONTES EMENON hHMAS EN TRWiADI
>
>Homer Iliad D247 H MENETE TRWAS SCEDON ELQEMEN ENQA TE NHES
>
>TRWAS has a different referent of course, just a curio, no real
>significance.

Still, MENETE is no less transitive; it's just that TRWAS SCEDON ELQEMEN as
a whole is its object

BDAG properly indicates the transitive use; I might note that sometimes in
Homer the present-reduplicated form MIMNW is used rather than MENW for the
transitive sense of this verbal stem.

BDAG: MENW, 3:
3. wait for, await, trans.
     a. of pers.: wait for someone who is arriving (Hom.; Thu. 4, 124, 4;
X., An. 4, 4, 20; Pla., Leg. 8, 833c; Polyb. 4, 8, 4; Tob 2:2 BA; 2 Macc
7:30; TestJob 11:1; Jos., Ant. 13, 19) TINA w. the place indicated EMENON
hHMAS EN TRWiADI they were waiting for us in Troas Ac 20:5.
     b. of things, such as dangers or misfortunes that await or threaten
someone (trag.; Kaibel 654, 9 KA'ME MENEI TO QANEIN; SibOr 4, 114 v.l. SE)
QLIYIS ME MENOUSIN Ac 20:23.-Of the 118 passages in which MENW occurs in
the NT, 67 are found in the Johannine writings (40 in the gosp.; 24 in 1J;
3 in 2J).-JHeise, Bleiben: Menein in d. Johan. Schr., '67; FHauck, TW IV
578-93: me÷nw and related words.-B. 836. DELG. M-M. TW.
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